Sweater.



D. RHEINAUER.

SWEATER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2.1914.

1 15mm Patented 0m. 26, 1915.

t tit DANIEL RHEINAUER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SWEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @ct. 26, 1915.

Application filed July 2, 1914; Serial No. 848,557.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL RHEINAUER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sweaters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sweaters and has for its object to provide an improved sweater having a detachable collar so that the sweater may be used conveniently 1n rough weather as also in mild weather, and for this purpose the invention is shown 1n the accompanying drawing and W111 be more fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanyingdrawing, Figure 1 is a front view of a sweater having my iniprovement thereon. Fig. 2 is a front new of a collar therefor, F ig. 3 is a rear view of the same collar, Fig. 4 1st partial view of a "sweater with the collar in inward position,

Fig. 5 is a partial view of a sweater with the collar in outward position, Fig. 6 is a partial view of a sweater with the collar 1n upward position in the form'of a choker,

Fig. 7 is a section taken on-line 77 of Fig.

1, Fig. 8 is a section taken on line 8-8 of' Fig. 4, Fig. 9 is a section taken on line 9.-9 of Fig. 5, and Fig. 10 is a section taken on line 101O of Fig. 6.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the various figures of the drawing.

In the form of embodiment illustrated in the drawing, the knit garment comprises a sweater body provided with pockets 11 at the front thereof, sleeves 12 at thesides thereof and the usual marginal band 13 at the meeting edges thereof, which band extends around the neck opening, the latter being of V-shape. The band 13 is provided on its inner face along the V-shaped neck opening adjacent to the edge thereof witha tape 15. This extending from the point 16 at the end of the V-shape upwardly and rearwardly and downwardly to said point is indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. This tape is provided with a series of fastener members, the sockets or eyelets 18 thereof being open on the inner face of the tape.

collar 21 has a concave inner edge and is provided along saidconcave inner edge cn its outer Lace with a tape which carries a series of fastening members 19,

preferably of the stud form, adapted to engage the socket members 18 of the body. The collar is preferably constructed in three sections, two triangular end sections 23 and 24 and an intermediate central section 22 having edges which are joined with the inner" ends of the end sections on lines 25 and 26 as indicated in Fig. 3. The end section 24 is provided on-its exterior near its center wlth buttons 81 and 32 and the end section 23 is provided at its edge with loops 29 and 30 adapted to engage said buttons.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 4 the collar 21 serves as an inner cape. In this case the edge carrying the fasteners 19 is the upper edge of the collar and-said fasteners are made to engage the fasteners 18 along the neck opening of the body. In this con struction the collar is completely covered by the body and the garment presents the appearance of a coat sweater instead of an ordinary turnover sweater.

In Fig. 5 the collar is shown in a different position. It has been removed from the position shown in Fig. 4:, and completely detached therefrom, and thenreversed endwise placed into the position shown in Fig. 5, and fastened by the interengagement of the members 19 and 18p A section taken on line 9-9 of Fig. 5 is clearly shown in Fig. 9, in which the fastenand the collar 21 extends rearwardly over the sweater 4:0.

In Fig. 6 another position of the collar is shown, namely that in raised position, to be specially used in the case of wintry weather. Thisis also clearly shown in Fig. 10 by the section taken on line 10-10 of Fig. 6, in which is shown the engagement of the members 18 and 19 and the collar 21 extending mentary Iit gage SZtlGL iastener members of, the body in .ing members 18 and 19 engage each other,

either endWise position of said collar; said detachable collar being adapted when disposed so that its fastener members are along its upper edge to form an inner cape inclosed Within said body, the garment then having the appearance of a coat sweater or When reversed endwise and disposed With its fastener members along its lower edge as a standin or turnover collar, and fastening devices or the ends of the collar adapting it to serve as a choker in standing position comprising buttons disposed centrally of one end member on the outer face thereof and loops at the edge of the other end member adapted to engage said buttons In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subseribing witnesses.

DANIEL RHEINAUER. Witnesses:

M. MCGRATH, 

